Improvement in ironing-boards



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IRONIITG-BOARD. .No.176,403. Patented April 18, 187.6

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EDWINKING AND ARTHUR IRVINE, OF DUNKIRK, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specificationforming part of Letters Patent No. 176,403, dated April 18,1876; application tiled 1 January 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, EDWIN KING and ARTHURIRVINE, of Dunkirk, in the county of Ghatauqua and State of New York,have invented a certain new and Improved Shirt- Bosom Stretcher andIroning-Board; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and complete description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of the same.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the board without the shirt-bosom spreadthereon. Fig. 2 is a view of the board having the shirt-bosom spreadupon it. Fig. 3 is a view of the under side of the board. Fig. 4 is anedge view.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views.

This invention is a board whereon to stretch shirt-bosoms for beingironed, the construction of which is as follows:

In the drawings, Figs. 3 and 4, A represents the board, provided with asoft slightlyraised covering, B, forming the face of the board, whereonthe shirt-bosom is laid and stretched for being ironed, as shown in Fig.2, in which 0 represents the bosom of the shirt. On each end of theboard is a springclainp, consisting of the wire yoke I I and cross-headJ, secured thereto, as hereinafter described. The middle or bar of theyoke is attached transversely to the bottom of the frame by staples a,Fig. 3, which permit the bar freedom to turn for elevating the head ofthe clamp, as indicated by the dotted lines b b, Fig. 4. Said bar isprevented from moving transversely by the shoulder a, formed by bendingthe wire comprising the bar upward against the sides of the board, asshown in Fig. 4. The arms of the yoke are secured to the cross head J byhaving their extreme ends bent inward at right angles, forming tan gs c,Fig. 5, which are driven into the ends of the head, as shown in saidFig. 5. The head is prevented from turning on the tangs by having agroove cut in the end thereof, so that the wire from which the tangprojects is embedded in the wood, as will be seen in Fig. 5 at d. Thetangs are prevented from pulling out from the head by means of thestraps banded around the ends of the head, as

shown in the drawings.

The adjustment of the shirt-bosom to the board for being ironed is asfollows: The board is placed on the inside of a shirt, with the sideshown in Fig. 1 upward, whereon 'is stretched and smoothed out by thehands the shirt bosom. To secure the bosom thus smoothed out upon theboard, and to stretch it still ind're, so that it shall be free fromwrinkles, the clamp is raised to the position indicated by the dottedlines I) in Fig. 4, the yoke on that part of the shirt above the bosomis drawn over or around the head J of the clamp, and carefully tucked inbetween the arms I. The clamp is now depressed, as shown in Figs. 1 and4., thereby clamping the material of the shirt between the head and theend of the board, as indicated by the dotted line a in Fig. 4:, thebosom being carefully smoothed out laterally, as shown in Fig. 2 at theline h. The collar end of the bosom being thus secured, the lower end isin like manner drawn over and around the head of the clamp, which, whenthe bosom is properly smoothed out laterally, the material H of theshirt immediately below the bosom is clamped between the head and theend of the board. As the clamp is depressed from its position indicatedby the dotted line b it draws upon the shirt-bosom, thereby stretchingit, and when assisted laterally by careful manipulation of the hands itbecomes free from folds and wrinkles, as shown in Fig. 2, in which (J isthe shirt bosom smoothly stretched over the face of the board forironing. The heads J of the clamp are so adjusted in their relation tothe ends of the board that when they are at the ends they draw a littlehard against them, and tightly against them when there is interposedbetween the head and the end of the board the material of the shirt, theforce of the impact being according to the thickness of the clothclamped against the end of the board.

0n clamping a considerable thickness of cloth by the clamp the bar, or,rather, that part I of the yoke lying across the board and confined bythe staples a, serves as a spring, which, while the head of the clamp isbeing forced down against the end of the board, becomes deflected, asindicated by the dotted lines f, Fig. 3, thereby allowing the head J torecede a little farther from the end of the board for clamping thefoldings of cloth that may be interposed between the end of the boardand the head, thereby holding the shirt firmly by the tension of thespring, so that it will remain smoothly stretched while being ironed.

This spring-like character of the yoke is of great importance in thesuccessful operation of the clamp, for unless the head is drawn more orless tightly against the end of the board the cloth of the shirt couldnot be held so that the bosom would be properly stretohed, a certaindegree of tension being necessary to keep the bosom of the shirt freefrom wrinkles.

What we claim as ourinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is:-

In combination with the board A, a springclamp, consistingofa cross;baror head, J, and a single piece of wire, I, to the ends of which said baris secured, the wire being bent to form the shouldered ends 0, and sesetforth.

EDWIN iKING. ARTHUR IRVINE. Witnesses:

JOHN F. SNOW'BLE, J. N. BRowNELL.

